July Featured Grantee RESTORE HOPE LIBERIA Liberia Introducing
July Featured Grantee RESTORE HOPE: LIBERIA Liberia
Introducing RESTORE HOPE: LIBERIA (RHL) provides essential support to vulnerable children and their caregivers, with timely and sustainable GOES HEADLINE resources and activities that will protect their health and wellbeing, ensure access to • Text goes here education, and provide • Text goes here economic opportunities • Text goes here beyond school, thus providing • Text goes here a way out of extreme and enduring poverty. HERE
Where in the world? • Liberia has a population of more than 5 million; 88% of Liberians live on less than $1. 25 a day. • The literacy rate is 48. 3% (men: 62. 7%, women 34. 1%). • Mother’s mean age at first birth is 19. 2. The country’s fertility rate is 4. 9 children born per woman. • Liberia’s high maternal mortality rate of 661 deaths/100, 000 live births remains among the world’s worst, and the infant mortality rate has been declining consistently and is presently at 47. 4 deaths per 1, 000 live births. • The country has been wracked by civil war and Ebola. More than 40% of Liberians suffer from post-traumatic stress and/or a major depressive disorder.
Where in the world? Liberia
Where in the world? Liberia
Life Challenges of the Women Served HEADLINE GOES HERE • Text goes herethe largest Ebola epidemic in human history, • A brutal civil war, • Text goesgender-based here and pervasive violence have resulted in • Text goes here widespread trauma. Textused goes here • Rape • was as a weapon of war; women and girls were often abducted and forced into sexual slavery. • Almost everyone experienced or witnessed atrocities during the war, including murder, rape, and physical abuse.
Life Challenges of the Women Served • Sexual violence, rape, and atrocities during the post-war period have reportedly been rampant. • With few economic HEADLINE GOES opportunities, the prospect of women’s empowerment remains poor at best. • Text hereof the • Without thegoes power Text goes here purse, • Liberian women are at • Text here greater riskgoes of gender-based • Text goes here violence and human trafficking. HERE
Life Challenges of the Women Served In Kolahun, RHL finds women who suffer debilitating trauma or mental illness. This is exacerbated by extreme gender inequality in a hypermasculine societal hierarchy, which inhibits women’s agency and leadership, stifles their confidence and self-worth, and leaves them with little to no decision-making power.
What are we supporting? RHL will address, holistically, the main drivers of poverty by providing access to healthcare, education, opportunity, and entrepreneurial skills for economic development.
What are we supporting? In addition to health, education, and economic components, RHL will incorporate Interpersonal Group Therapy for depressive disorders into this project, providing trained facilitators who will identify individuals with a depressive disorder. Regular follow-up and assessment will be conducted. Direct Impact: Year 1 - 94, Year 2 - 260; Indirect Impact: Year 1 - 360; Year 2 1040
Budget DFW’s grant of $50, 000 over two years will fund: Item Mental Health Program Detail Interpersonal Group Therapy (IPT) training (stipend for trainers, materials, food, lodging, incidentals) Mental Health Counselor/MH-PSS Program Manager HEADLINE GOES HERE Mental Health Program Mental Health: Stipend for manager/IPT group leader Kolahun Crescendo Stipend for first and second year IPT facilitators • Text goes here (KC)/IPT • Text goes here. Microloans for looms and supplies, weaving Economic • Text goes here Empowerment: apprentice stipend, instructor stipend, business Women’s • Weaving and savings and loan workshops, cooperative Text goes here Cooperative governance workshop, incidentals Women’s Social Program support, community awareness, Empowerment: presentation materials KC/IPT Total $8, 140 $12, 000 $8, 760 $20, 100 $1, 000
About the Featured Grantee • In 2015, after the worst Ebola outbreak in history, global health colleagues sought to develop a new model of post -emergency humanitarian aid to address the shortcomings of the standard humanitarian response. HEADLINE GOES HERE • They collaborated with Liberian counterparts and piloted the RHL program in the Kolahun District. • During • its. Text first three goes hereyears, RHL partnered with a non-profit established • Text goes here in Liberia to implement the program. • Text goes here • In 2018, RHL became an independent, • Text goes here registered non-profit in Liberia in order to expand the program and create opportunities for future growth.
Share Your Thoughts 1. Why do you think this project is sustainable? HEADLINE GOES HERE 2. How do you think this project can affect gender inequality in Liberia? • Text goes here • Textdo goesyou here think RHL’s holistic focus 3. Why • Text goes here works? • Text goes here
July’s Sustained Grantee: Collateral Repair Project Resilience Beyond Displacement: Education and Empowerment for Refugee Women and Girls in Jordan HEADLINE GOES HERE • Expands CRP’s holistic support model to refugees from Iraq, Syria, Sudan, and Yemen with more focused programing • Aims to educate and empower women and girls through • Text goes here targeted training and educational activities along with • Text goes here opportunities for advocacy and leadership • Text goes here • Provides technical and vocational skills training to women • Text goes here and gender-based violence prevention and awareness training to both women and men in the refugee communities. • Direct Impact: 3, 885 women and girls; Indirect Impact: 25, 605 family members
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